Walking in an old graveyard the other day, I stumbled upon this baby on a tombstone. I don't actually know what it's called (I'm sure Wabbit will be able to find out in .2 seconds ;]) but the thing was HUGE! I mean that thing was the size of my pointer finger! Damcat got really scared when i brought "Alice" in the house, so did the Old WP, but she got over it and helped take pictures, which actually came out rather well on Deacon's camera. It's actually a shame that she wasn't dead, could have put her in the bug collection. Oh well, enjoy.
P.S. Old WP took these groundhog pics about 3 months ago but didn't know how to post, so here you go!
3 comments:
Cute hog!
I believe your moth is either the five-spotted hawk moth, or it's close cousin, the Carolina sphinx moth.
The larval form of the five-spotted Hawk moth is known as a tomato hornworm. The larval form of the Carolina sphinx is called a tobacco hornworm. So close, and the moths are quite similar. The difference is most obvious in the number of orange spots, but I can't really see if there are five or six spots from the slideshow. Maybe you can look at just that single photo and count them. That should tell us.
aww i remember alice!
wow, you must be as old as me!
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